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Object Type
Museum number: 1904,0418.1
Description: Rectangular plaque of brownish earthenware covered on the front and sides, and part of the reverse with presumed tin glaze. Painted on the front with the dead Christ sitting on the tomb, supported by angels. The reverse partly covered by a brownish glaze. Composition possibly after an engraving by Nicoletto da Modena.
Producer name
Production date: 1506
Production place: Made in: Faenza (?)
Excavator/field collector
Materials
Ware
Technique: glazed; tin-glazed
Dimensions: Height: 15.60 centimetres; Thickness: 1 centimetres; Width: 12.50 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Bibliography: Marryat Sale lot 860 Christie's 9-19 February 1867; Marryat 1850 p.15; Rackham 1960 p.137.; Thornton & Wilson 2009 See registration no. 1925,1006.1 for an example of a gilt-bronze pax with Christ supported by angels.
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 67); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (39); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIII.267.21); Marryat 1857 / Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain (p28); Ballardini 1933-1938 / Corpus della maiolica italiana (I, no36, fig29)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: new testament; angel
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1904
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1904,0418.1
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